Simple Forms2.0.5

Reports are the result of gathering data from a variety of sources and enlisting details in an easy-to-read layout. Depending on how you plan on using these details, you can use specialized applications like Simple Forms in order to design cool forms to print out or export.

Import data from file or a database

The application doesn’t take long to install, and you can take it for a spin right afterwards. The general design is pretty intuitive, and pretty much resembles a powerful text editor. In fact, these are the main tools you work with, the only difference from a regular text editor being that you can easily add entire data sets in customizable forms.Just so you don’t take a lot of time to manually provide all details, the application allows you to grab it from a variety of sources. As such, a data source can come from an SQL database, entity framework, object binding, as well as an excel or CSV file. Information grabbed from these data sources gets enlisted in the data explorer pane.

Full set of text editing tools to use

The data explorer panel is where you find all data sets which can be inserted through a drag and drop operation on the canvas. These can hold multiple items of different types, and you can edit the tag and value type of each item.Setting up the data source is the greatest effort on your behalf. This is because the rest of the operation consists of fine-tuning the visual style of your form. You benefit from an impressive variety of text manipulation options with which you’re surely familiar from using popular text editors like Word.

A few last words

To sum it up, Simple Forms delivers a comprehensive set of features with which you can import data from a whole variety of online and offline sources and arrange them in a cool form. Thorough text and style customization options make sure you get exactly what you ask for in the end.